History
389 Directory Server is the newest incarnation of what was once the original University of Michigan slapd project. In 1996, the project's developers were hired by Netscape Communications Corporation and the project became known as the Netscape Directory Server (NDS). After acquiring Netscape, AOL sold ownership of the NDS intellectual property to Sun Microsystems, but retained rights akin to ownership. Sun sold and developed the Netscape Directory Server under the name JES/SunOne Directory Server, now an Oracle product since the takeover of Sun by Oracle. AOL/Netscape's rights were acquired by Red Hat, and on June 1, 2005, much of the source code was released as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
As of 389 Directory Server version 1.0 (December 1, 2005), Red Hat released as free software all of the remaining source code for all components included in the release package (admin server, console, etc.) and continues to maintain them under their respective licenses.
In May 2009 the Fedora Directory Server project changed its name to 389 to give the project a distribution and vendor neutral name and encourage porting or running the software on other operating systems.
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